Answer:
The answer is: an ethnography.
Explanation:
Ethnography is a research method that consists of the study of the everyday life of a group of people. When social researchers first began using this method, it was common for them to live with the group they were studying over a period of years, since they focused on the study of foreign cultures. However, although ehnography still implies the submersion of the researcher into the community or culture he is studying, it doesn't necessarily have to be a foreign non occidental culture.
Within this method, researchers can use several research techniques to gather data, participant and non participant observation, interviews, etc.
The railroads help transfer people and goods across the United States lot faster than on horse. Also helped with mailing.
Both were uprisings against foreign occupiers
Both failed to succeed
Both involved the British (a lot less for the Boxer Uprising)